European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker used private jets for 21 of 43 official trips from January to November 2018 according to Daily Mail.

Ironically, Jean-Claude used the private jets for nearly half of his worldwide travel as official figures reveal. Yet in his 2018 State of the EU speech he warned of the threat of climate change, which is thought to be exacerbated by emissions from aeroplanes.

The analysis of his spending on flights has brought calls for him to be investigated over his ‘excessive’ use of private flights which are funded by EU taxpayers.

The analysis showed that the costs for many of the visits were upwards of £23,000 which means the total cost of the 21 flights to be in the hundreds of thousands of pounds. The cost of one private jet for a one-night trip to Tunisia alone was up to £32,943 or around €36,500, according to Daily Mail.

This is especially problematic as according to EU Commission rules, ‘air taxis’ are only permitted when no suitable commercial flights can be obtained.

Whilst many of the flights he took were over relatively short distances, in his state of the EU speech he said Europeans should want to “leave a cleaner planet for future generations”.